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Dow launches MobilityScience platform

Silicone Engineering posts 38% rise in annual earnings

Added: 25 Aug 2023

UK silicone manufacturing and formulation specialist upbeat about future market prospects

Teknor Apex launches 40% recycled-content TPV elastomers

Added: 25 Aug 2023

US compounder to introduce new TPEs with up to 65% post-consumer recycled content later this year

Kemya, Continental Carbon start Saudi carbon black plant

Zeon invests in start-up to advance green hydrogen plans

Added: 25 Aug 2023

Targets implementing Verdagy’s hydrogen production technology in chemicals plants

Factory Safety: Bridgestone approach to occupational health and safety

ERJ: News stories of the week

Added: 25 Aug 2023

Most read news reports posted on the European Rubber Journal website over the last seven days

NR alternatives ‘not any time soon’

Sri Trang progresses natural rubber expansions in Thailand

Added: 24 Aug 2023

Thai NR major set to increase global market share from 10% to 12% 

Pirelli expects 19% decline in global passenger car tire demand

Pirelli capacity enough to support demand 'in coming years'

Added: 24 Aug 2023

Group has 90% global saturation, of which 95% is “high-value”

Hankook Precision Works advances tire mould technology with 3D printing centre

Added: 24 Aug 2023

Unit in Daejeon to enhance precision tire mould parts, develop new kerf products 

AES Seal acquires Australian manufacturer Triseal

Added: 24 Aug 2023

UK seals maker ‘uniquely placed’ to serve mining and minerals, other industrial sectors in Australi…

Ley Rubber to the rescue for Batmobile owner

Added: 24 Aug 2023

Special weatherproof sealing protects iconic vehicle never intended to be driven on roads

Phillips Carbon Black to complete expansion project early next year

Indian carbon black major PCBL opens European subsidiary

Added: 24 Aug 2023

Group commissions first phase of speciality carbon black plant

John Crane, UK universities win £1m funding for carbon capture project

Added: 24 Aug 2023

Grant awarded for high-temperature sealing solution for “supercritical CO₂ power cycle”

Bridgestone adds curing bladder facility in China

Bridgestone details premium tire production strategy

Added: 23 Aug 2023

Japanese group to reinforce structure to produce BCMA-Enliten tires across 16 plants

ContiTech official notes changes in hose industry 

ContiTech progresses plan to make automotive business "organisationally independent"

Added: 23 Aug 2023

OE Solutions business segment to be separated from other ContiTech business units within two years.…

Cabot ready for take-off as economic recovery strengthens 

Cabot tracks impact of EU sanctions on Russian carbon black exports

Added: 23 Aug 2023

China, for example, "has its own competitive-intensity and Russian supply isn't really changing tha…

China ousts EU as global chemicals market leader

Evonik reports "no meaningful turnaround" in second quarter

Added: 23 Aug 2023

Chairman: "Germany is in a recession, Europe as well, and the economy in China is not picking up as…

Covestro H1 earnings halved on intense competition

Covestro appoints Christian Baier as new CFO

Added: 23 Aug 2023

German polymers company names technology office Thorsten Dreier for ‘labour director’ role

Essentially Rubber: A brush with sustainability

Added: 23 Aug 2023

Leading-edge designs and applications showing how elastomer materials...

ANRPC raises natural rubber supply, demand forecasts

Added: 22 Aug 2023

Upgrade based on increased consumption and production data from member countries for July

Tokai first-half profits rise on carbon black growth

Added: 22 Aug 2023

Group's carbon black sales up 15% year-on-year while operating income more than doubled...

More car makers suspend production as supply chain disrupted

Conti revises up car production expectations for 2023

Added: 22 Aug 2023

Europe saw 16% growth in vehicle production in first half, helped by “stabilised supply-chains...”